More than 20 student teams from leading universities across
Australia and New Zealand will demonstrate their engineering and mechatronics
skills on an international platform in the 2013
National Instruments Autonomous Robotics Competition (NI ARC).
The teams are tasked with building an autonomous robot in
preparation for the live competition final in September, themed ‘Gold Rush’. In
the final, each robot will have to navigate an obstacle filled course,
identify, pick up and move objects to designated locations in the shortest
possible time.
Matej Krajnc, managing
director for National Instruments Oceania said the competition allows students
to demonstrate their engineering skills and broaden their career pathways.
All teams are required to successfully achieve four
milestone tasks throughout the competition under the guidance of academic
supervisors and support of NI Engineers.
In 2012, Swinburne University of Technology’s SUAVE team won
the competition with their robot, Frogstar.
Universities competing in the competition include University
of Newcastle, University of New South Wales, University of Technology Sydney,
University of Wollongong, University of Sydney, University of Western Sydney; Curtin
University; Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology; Charles
Darwin University; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Swinburne
University of Technology, La Trobe University; University of Adelaide, Flinders
University; New Zealand: Manukau Institute of Technology, University of
Auckland, Victoria University of Wellington.
The University of Newcastle's entry.
